Fresh off winning its first CIF Southern Section championship, the Hillcrest boys basketball team was rewarded with the top seed in the CIF State Southern California Division IV regional playoff bracket.

Etiwanda’s boys and girls basketball teams are the lone Inland representatives in the Open Divisions. The boys team is seeded fifth and will head to LA Westchester, the City Section’s Open Division champ, on Friday. The girls are seeded fourth and host San Diego Open champion Spring Valley Mount Miguel on Friday.

Rancho Christian is seeded fourth in the Division I boys bracket and will host Vista in the first round Wednesday evening. Chino Hills, the Southern Section’s Division 1 champion, is the No. 6 seed in that bracket and hosts Chula Vista Mater Dei Catholic on Wednesday. Rancho Verde is the No. 12 seed in the Division I bracket and will travel to Santa Margarita for the opening round.

Cajon is the No. 3 seed in the Division II boys regional and hosts Valencia in Wednesday’s first round. Upland is the division’s No. 5 seed and will host Crenshaw, and Riverside Poly is seeded seventh and will host La Jolla Country Day in the opening round.

Notre Dame only managed to pick up the No. 8 seed in the Division III boys bracket, despite capturing the Southern Section’s Division 3A title. The Titans will host Oceanside El Camino on Wednesday evening. Twentynine Palms is seeded seventh in the division and hosts La Puente Bishop Amat in the first round. Murrieta Mesa is the No. 11 seed and will travel to Solana Beach Santa Fe Christian on Wednesday.

Carnegie is seeded seventh in the Division IV boys bracket and hosts Kerman in Wednesday’s first round. Calvary Baptist is the No. 14 seed in the Division V boys bracket and will head to La Puente Nogales.

Ontario is seeded fifth in the Division IV girls bracket and will host Fresno in the opening round. Garey is the No. 9 seed in the Division V girls bracket and travel to Lynwood Firebaugh on Wednesday.

SOCCER REGIONAL PAIRINGS

Temecula Valley and Paloma Valley received the top seed in Division II and Division IV, respectively, for the CIF State Southern California girls soccer regional playoffs.

Temecula Valley, which won the Southern Section’s Division 2 title, will host San Diego Scripps Ranch in the first round Tuesday. Scripps Ranch won the San Diego Section’s Division 1 championship.

Three other Inland girls soccer teams were selected for the Southern California regional playoffs.

Upland is seeded sixth in the Division I bracket and travels to Woodland Hills El Camino Real for a first-round game Tuesday. Centennial is seeded fifth in Division III and will travel to Bakersfield Independence on Tuesday. Rialto is the No. 7 seed in Division V and heads to San Marcos High Tech NC.

Five boys soccer teams from the Inland area were selected for the Southern California regionals.

Indian Springs is seeded second in the Division IV bracket and hosts San Pedro in the opening round. Hesperia is the No. 6 seed in Division IV and will travel to Bakersfield Miramonte on Tuesday, while Arlington is seeded seventh in Division II and heads to San Diego Torrey Pines for the first round.

Eric-Paul Johnson has been covering high school sports for The Press-Enterprise since 1999, specializing in football, girls volleyball, girls water polo and softball. He is a stat junkie who created and maintains a record book for high school sports in the Inland Empire. Eric-Paul is a lifelong resident of Riverside and graduated from Bethel Christian and Cal Baptist. Eric-Paul enjoys going to concerts and twice has worked as a photographer at the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival.

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